Archive for March, 2006

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Hiring a web front-end engineer and a rant

Wednesday, March 8th, 2006

Update 3/28/06: Still looking… not for a web designer but a web front-end engineer. Jemery does a good job of describing the distrinction. No doubt about it, this is a hot skill set that is extremely hard to find!

I’m hiring a front-end web developer (contract or FTE) for either on-site or remote work. This is not a web designer or graphics designer job but rather a technical front-end developer, someone with crazy XHTML/CSS/Javascript skills (more…)

Posted in Design, Javascript, Web | 5 Comments »

Modal windows with Javascript and CSS

Wednesday, March 8th, 2006

One of the side projects I spent a little time on today was researching the use of on-page modal dialog boxes using Javascript and CSS that shade or darken the rest of the page while they are open. It looks like it will be an easy job thanks to these two solutions that are made freely available: (more…)

Posted in Desktop, Javascript, Web | 1 Comment »

Photos of the container ship APL Panama aground

Sunday, March 5th, 2006

For a change from my regularly scheduled tech blogging, these photos (scroll down), these photos, and these have been out for a while now and as of this writing the container ship APL Panama is still sitting 200 feet off the beach in Ensenada and tugs have been unable to pull her off. (more…)

Posted in Maritime | 1 Comment »

Five aspects of OS X and the MacBook in need of improvement

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

I’ve gotten through my first week of work on a MacBook Pro after switching from Windows and before I go further let me say that overall it’s been a very positive experience, see my previous post on why I switched from Windows to the Mac. After a week there are still 5 things that I feel were poorly executed on the Mac and they are: (more…)

Posted in Desktop | 13 Comments »

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